To:G. L. SHKLOVSKY

Written:Written May 8, 1913Published:First published in 1925 inProletarskaya RevolutsiaNo. 8.

      Sent to Berne.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Pleasenote my change of address. We have come out here into the
country near Zakopane for a mountain air cure (we are at a height of about
700 metres) for Nad. Konst.’s goitre. I had been warned: if you neglect it
it will be irreparable; take herat onceto see Kocher in Berne,
he’s first-class, a celebrity.... On the one hand Kocher’s a
surgeon. Surgeons like to use the knife, and an operation here, I daresay,
is extremely dangerous and extremely doubtful.... On the other hand people
are treated with mountain air andrest. A “rest” is hardly
practicable with us, owing to the nervous lives we lead. And this illness
is caused by nerves. We tried an electricity cure for
3 weeks. Results—nil. Nothing has changed—the same bulging eyes, and
swollen neck, and palpitations of the heart—all the symptoms of goitre.

Couldyou make inquiries concerning Kocher? I don’t knowhowto go about it, and I want advice. Couldn’t you go with somebody, a student
or a doctor, to consult Kocher? Or do you think he would not want to talk
withoutseeing the patient? Or could one have a talk with him on presentation of a
letter from the doctor in attendance here (that is, in Cracow)? If
inquiries of a serious nature can be made at all in BerneconcerningKocher orwithKocher personally (the latter
would be best of all, of course) I would be much obliged to you. Should
inquiries point to theneedof a journey to Berne, drop me a line
as to Kocher’s reception arrangements, when he goes away for the summer,
and how we are to fix up in Berne, in some hospital (is it very expensive?)
or otherwise.

Allthe best, and thanking you in advance, for the trouble you are
taking.

Yours,N. Lenin

Absender:Wl. Ulianow.Poronin(Galizien).